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Philosophical and theoretical perspectives of organisational structures as information processing systems
M.E. BurkeThis paper considers the issues surrounding the fit between information systems and organisation structures. The paper uses philosophical ideas concerning knowledge and applies…
Data collection using electronically assisted interviews in a roadshow: A methodological evaluation
Rita Marcella, Graeme Baxter, Nick MooreDiscusses the second stage of a pilot study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, which investigated the impact of technology on the communication of parliamentary…
Requests for information from a film archive: a case study of multimedia retrieval
Morten HertzumMultimedia retrieval is a complex and to some extent still unexplored area. Based on a full year of e‐mail requests addressed to a large film archive this study analyses what…
Information seeking and use by newspaper journalists
Simon Attfield, John DowellReports an interview study into information seeking and use by journalists at a national British newspaper. Describes work activity in the context of a series of behaviour shaping…
Can Google's PageRank be used to find the most important academic Web pages?
Mike ThelwallGoogle's PageRank is an influential algorithm that uses a model of Web use that is dominated by its link structure in order to rank pages by their estimated value to the Web…
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